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. Enervate
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
2. Pecuniary
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
3. Vacuous
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
4. Facetious
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
5. Gamete
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
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.