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. Reparation
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
2. Interpolate
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
3. Reciprocal
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
4. Bowdlerize
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
5. Epiphany
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
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.