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. Quotidian
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
2. Chromosome
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
3. Usurp
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
4. Enfranchise
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
5. Winnow
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
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.