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. Chromosome
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
2. Circumlocution
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
3. Unctuous
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
4. Enervate
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
5. Subjugate
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
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.