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. Tautology
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
2. Sanguine
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
3. Nomenclature
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
4. Deleterious
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
5. Infrastructure
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
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.