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. Euro
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
2. Nadir
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
3. Deciduous
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
4. Nonsectarian
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
5. Suffragist
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
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.