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. Precipitous
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
2. Interpolate
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
3. Circumlocution
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
4. Abjure
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
5. Oxidize
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► To proceed completely around:
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
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.