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. Bowdlerize
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
2. Vehement
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
3. Interpolate
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
4. Euro
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
5. Jejune
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► 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.