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. Antebellum
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
2. Inculcate
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
3. Paradigm
► To make an accusation against.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
4. Notarize
► To bring under control; conquer.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
5. Enfranchise
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
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.