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. Precipitous
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
2. Inculcate
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
3. Kinetic
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
4. Abjure
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
5. Churlish
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
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.