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. Lexicon
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
2. Expurgate
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
3. Nanotechnology
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
4. Diffident
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
5. Detritus
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
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.