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. Notarize
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
2. Quasar
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► To bring under control; conquer.
3. Bowdlerize
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
4. Interpolate
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
5. Tempestuous
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
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.