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. Laissez faire
► To make an accusation against.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
2. Enfranchise
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
3. Thermodynamics
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
4. Vehement
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
5. Homogeneous
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
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.