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
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
2. Respiration
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
3. Auspicious
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To bring under control; conquer.
4. Unctuous
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
5. Moiety
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
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.