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. Gerrymander
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
2. Vehement
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► To proceed completely around:
3. Circumlocution
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
4. Recapitulate
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
5. Interpolate
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
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.