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. Vacuous
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► To proceed completely around:
2. Oxidize
► To proceed completely around:
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
3. Nomenclature
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
4. Interpolate
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
5. Abjure
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
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.