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. Abrogate
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To proceed completely around:
2. Interpolate
► To proceed completely around:
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
3. Vortex
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
4. Subjugate
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► To bring under control; conquer.
5. Chromosome
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► 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.