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. Euro
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► To proceed completely around:
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
2. Enfranchise
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
3. Sanguine
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
4. Obsequious
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
5. Xenophobe
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
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.