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.
► To make an accusation against.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
2. Parabola
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
3. Yeoman
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
4. Recapitulate
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
5. Equinox
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
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.