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. Abrogate
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
2. Oligarchy
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
3. Equinox
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
4. Chicanery
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
5. Contradiction
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
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.