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
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
2. Plasma
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
3. Lexicon
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
4. Suffragist
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
5. Infrastructure
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
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.