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. Inculcate
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
2. Subjugate
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
3. Yeoman
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
4. Reciprocal
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
5. Jejune
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
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.