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. Circumnavigate
► To proceed completely around:
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
2. Polymer
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
3. Wrought
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
4. Paradigm
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
5. Subjugate
► To bring under control; conquer.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
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.