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. Precipitous
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
2. Impeach
► To make an accusation against.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
3. Nanotechnology
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To proceed completely around:
4. Antebellum
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
5. Xenophobe
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
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.