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. Bellicose
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
2. Subjugate
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
3. Precipitous
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
4. Temblor
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
5. Reciprocal
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
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.