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. Subjugate
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
2. Tempestuous
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► To make an accusation against.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
3. Enervate
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► To proceed completely around:
4. Hypotenuse
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
5. Chicanery
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
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.