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. Nanotechnology
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
2. Acumen
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
3. Diffident
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
4. Kowtow
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
5. Contradiction
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
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.