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. Enfranchise
► To bring under control; conquer.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
2. Quotidian
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
3. Oligarchy
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
4. Antebellum
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
5. Abstemious
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
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.