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. Abstemious
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
2. Nadir
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
3. Enfranchise
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
4. Euro
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
5. Omnipotent
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
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.