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. Expurgate
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
2. Inculcate
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
3. Obsequious
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► To proceed completely around:
4. Facetious
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
5. Equinox
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
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.