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. Gamete
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
2. Evanescent
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
3. Enfranchise
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
4. Winnow
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
5. Nadir
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
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.