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. Recapitulate
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
2. Quotidian
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
3. Pecuniary
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
4. Enfranchise
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
5. Circumnavigate
► To make an accusation against.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► To proceed completely around:
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.