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. Nadir
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
2. Xenophobe
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
3. Enfranchise
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
4. Tectonic
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
5. Facetious
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
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.