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. Abstemious
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
2. Pecuniary
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
3. Fatuous
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
4. Xenophobe
5. Precipitous
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
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.