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. Photosynthesis
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
2. Subjugate
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► To bring under control; conquer.
3. Equinox
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
4. Bowdlerize
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
5. Gamete
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
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.