Words in the News Quiz
5 High School Words
Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
Then see if you can find the word in your newspaper -- the print edition, the website or the digital edition and copy the sentence for context. NOTE: High School words are much harder to find!
1. Circumlocution
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
2. Quotidian
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
3. Supercilious
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
4. Homogeneous
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
5. Bowdlerize
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► To make an accusation against.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
LS.CCS.4/5/6 Grades 3-12: Students are asked to determine the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words through multiple choice vocabulary quizzes. Quizzes are designed to help students demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships and nuances in words, acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words, and gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to its overall meaning or function in a sentence.