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. Fiduciary
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
2. Recapitulate
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
3. Lugubrious
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
4. Enfranchise
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
5. Antebellum
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
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.