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. Antebellum
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
2. Orthography
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
3. Enfranchise
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
4. Loquacious
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
5. Hemoglobin
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
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.