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. Plasma
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
2. Subjugate
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► To bring under control; conquer.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
3. Incognito
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
4. Vehement
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► To make an accusation against.
5. Lucid
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
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.