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. Suffragist
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
2. Impeach
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► To make an accusation against.
3. Hubris
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
4. Xenophobe
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
5. Nihilism
► To proceed completely around:
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
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.