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
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
2. Incognito
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
3. Interpolate
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
4. Circumlocution
► To proceed completely around:
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
5. Irony
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
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.