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. Enfranchise
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
2. Recapitulate
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
3. Irony
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
4. Notarize
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
5. Epiphany
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
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.