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. Acumen
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
2. Kowtow
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
3. Euro
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
4. Impeach
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► To make an accusation against.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
5. Enfranchise
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► 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.