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
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
2. Polymer
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
3. Gauche
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
4. Nihilism
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
5. Lugubrious
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
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.