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. Incontrovertible
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
2. Enfranchise
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
3. Inculcate
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
4. Nadir
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
5. Contradiction
► To make an accusation against.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
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.