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. Interpolate
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
2. Chicanery
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
3. Vortex
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
4. Gauche
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
5. Oxidize
► To bring under control; conquer.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
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.