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 endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
2. Fatuous
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
3. Evanescent
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
4. Reparation
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
5. Circumlocution
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
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.