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. Bowdlerize
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
2. Feckless
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
3. Oligarchy
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
4. Quasar
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
5. Chicanery
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► 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.