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. Oxidize
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
2. Reciprocal
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
3. Lucid
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
4. Impeach
► To make an accusation against.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
5. Vortex
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► To proceed completely around:
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.