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. Bowdlerize
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► To proceed completely around:
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
2. Totalitarian
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
3. Lucid
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
4. Hubris
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
5. Jejune
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
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.