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. Enfranchise
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
2. Precipitous
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
3. Tempestuous
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
4. Chicanery
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
5. Oligarchy
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
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.