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. Lucid
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► To proceed completely around:
2. Epiphany
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
3. Respiration
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
4. Suffragist
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
5. Hubris
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
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.