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. Oligarchy
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
2. Fiduciary
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
3. Plasma
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
4. Enfranchise
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
5. Polymer
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
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.