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. Abrogate
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
2. Parabola
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
3. Sanguine
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
4. Respiration
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
5. Quasar
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
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.