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. Quasar
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
2. Infrastructure
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
3. Oxidize
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
4. Impeach
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► To make an accusation against.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
5. Precipitous
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
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.