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
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
2. Detritus
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
3. Abrogate
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
4. Irony
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
5. Notarize
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
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.