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. Nihilism
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
2. Respiration
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
3. Enfranchise
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
4. Gauche
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
5. Fatuous
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► To proceed completely around:
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.