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. Taxonomy
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
2. Interpolate
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
3. Reparation
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
4. Ziggurat
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
5. Obsequious
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
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.