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. Thermodynamics
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To make an accusation against.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
2. Interpolate
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
3. Unctuous
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
4. Deciduous
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
5. Gerrymander
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
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.