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. Circumlocution
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
2. Oxidize
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
3. Recapitulate
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
4. Jejune
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
5. Precipitous
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
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.