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
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
2. Abstemious
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
3. Gamete
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
4. Inculcate
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
5. Expurgate
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
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.