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. Inculcate
► 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.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
2. Quasar
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
3. Irony
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
4. Interpolate
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
5. Thermodynamics
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► 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.