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. Quasar
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
2. Gauche
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
3. Irony
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
4. Abstemious
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
5. Fiduciary
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
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.