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. Acumen
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
2. Bowdlerize
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
3. Recapitulate
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
4. Inculcate
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
5. Omnipotent
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
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.