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. Enfranchise
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
2. Reciprocal
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To make an accusation against.
3. Kowtow
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
4. Usurp
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
5. Inculcate
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
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.