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. Gamete
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
2. Quasar
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
3. Subjugate
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To bring under control; conquer.
4. Incontrovertible
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► To proceed completely around:
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
5. Circumlocution
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
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.