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. Nomenclature
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► To proceed completely around:
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
2. Feckless
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
3. Euro
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
4. Precipitous
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
5. Tautology
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
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.