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. Antebellum
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► To proceed completely around:
2. Churlish
► To proceed completely around:
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
3. Abrogate
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
4. Deleterious
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
5. Enfranchise
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
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.