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. Tectonic
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
2. Homogeneous
► To proceed completely around:
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
3. Reparation
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
4. Infrastructure
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
5. Bowdlerize
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
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.