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. Usurp
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
2. Enfranchise
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
3. Lugubrious
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
4. Moiety
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
5. Supercilious
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
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.