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. Inculcate
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
2. Expurgate
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
3. Quotidian
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
4. Enervate
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
5. Kinetic
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
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.