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. Nihilism
► To bring under control; conquer.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
2. Hubris
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
3. Bowdlerize
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
4. Photosynthesis
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
5. Lucid
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
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.