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
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
2. Respiration
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
3. Kinetic
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
4. Belie
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
5. Kowtow
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
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.