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. Vortex
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
2. Bellicose
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► To make an accusation against.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
3. Inculcate
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
4. Lucid
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
5. Fiduciary
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
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.