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. Vehement
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
2. Enfranchise
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
3. Sanguine
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► To make an accusation against.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
4. Fiduciary
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► To bring under control; conquer.
5. Nanotechnology
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
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.