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. Winnow
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
2. Nihilism
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
3. Feckless
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
4. Polymer
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
5. Nadir
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
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.