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. Contradiction
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
2. Hubris
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
3. Hemoglobin
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
4. Incontrovertible
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► To make an accusation against.
5. Interpolate
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
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.