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. Infrastructure
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
2. Circumlocution
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
3. Fiduciary
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
4. Homogeneous
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
5. Chicanery
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
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.