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. Totalitarian
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
2. Abjure
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
3. Suffragist
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
4. Moiety
► To proceed completely around:
5. Vortex
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
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.