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 bring under control; conquer.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
2. Notarize
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
3. Mitosis
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
4. Diffident
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
5. Lugubrious
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
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.