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. Chicanery
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
2. Oxidize
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
3. Interpolate
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
4. Polymer
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
5. Lexicon
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
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.