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. Feckless
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
2. Evanescent
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
3. Plasma
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
4. Enfranchise
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
5. Incognito
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
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.