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. Xenophobe
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
2. Lucid
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
3. Taxonomy
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
4. Hypotenuse
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To make an accusation against.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
5. Hubris
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
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.