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. Belie
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
2. Oligarchy
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
3. Antebellum
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
4. Nihilism
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
5. Auspicious
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
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.