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. Precipitous
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
2. Enfranchise
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
3. Vortex
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► A diligent, dependable worker.
4. Respiration
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
5. Pecuniary
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
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.