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. Nihilism
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To proceed completely around:
2. Recapitulate
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
3. Polymer
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
4. Pecuniary
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
5. Chicanery
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
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.