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. Mitosis
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
2. Nomenclature
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
3. Enfranchise
► To make an accusation against.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
4. Enervate
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
5. Hypotenuse
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
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.