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. Vehement
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
2. Plasma
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
3. Vortex
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► To make an accusation against.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
4. Homogeneous
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
5. Enfranchise
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
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.