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. Recapitulate
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
2. Inculcate
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
3. Subjugate
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
4. Circumnavigate
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► To proceed completely around:
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
5. Nonsectarian
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
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.