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. Interpolate
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
2. Obsequious
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
3. Sanguine
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
4. Supercilious
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
5. Mitosis
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
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.