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. Suffragist
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
2. Diffident
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
3. Evanescent
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
4. Reciprocal
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
5. Hemoglobin
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
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.