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. Pecuniary
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
2. Subjugate
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
3. Hemoglobin
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
4. Temblor
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
5. Vacuous
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
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.