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. Taxonomy
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
2. Abjure
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
3. Recapitulate
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
4. Incognito
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
5. Chromosome
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
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.