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. Impeach
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► To make an accusation against.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
2. Abjure
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
3. Interpolate
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
4. Winnow
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
5. Acumen
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
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.