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. Infrastructure
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
2. Vacuous
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
3. Chromosome
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
4. Diffident
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
5. Enfranchise
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
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.