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
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
2. Diffident
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
3. Precipitous
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
4. Obsequious
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
5. Suffragist
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
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.