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. Circumnavigate
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► To proceed completely around:
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
2. Pecuniary
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
3. Lexicon
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
4. Bowdlerize
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
5. Metamorphosis
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► 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.