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. Oxidize
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
2. Plasma
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
3. Abjure
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
4. Kinetic
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To proceed completely around:
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
5. Chicanery
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or 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.