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. Enervate
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
2. Recapitulate
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
3. Reparation
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
4. Laissez faire
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
5. Auspicious
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
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.