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. Deleterious
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
2. Precipitous
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
3. Gamete
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
4. Lugubrious
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
5. Respiration
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
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.