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. Deciduous
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
2. Bowdlerize
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
3. Suffragist
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
4. Quotidian
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
5. Gauche
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
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.