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
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
2. Nomenclature
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
3. Vehement
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
4. Diffident
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
5. Fiduciary
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
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.