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. Laissez faire
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
2. Oligarchy
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
3. Suffragist
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
4. Equinox
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
5. Reciprocal
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
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.