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. Circumnavigate
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► To proceed completely around:
► To make an accusation against.
2. Recapitulate
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
3. Antebellum
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
4. Oligarchy
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
5. Nihilism
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
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.