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. Gerrymander
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
2. Nihilism
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
3. Yeoman
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
4. Moiety
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
5. Abrogate
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
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.