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. Soliloquy
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
2. Bowdlerize
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
3. Antebellum
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
4. Fiduciary
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
5. Fatuous
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
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.