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. Jejune
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
2. Gerrymander
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
3. Abstemious
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
4. Lugubrious
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
5. Wrought
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
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.