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. Nomenclature
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
2. Lugubrious
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
3. Gamete
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
4. Deciduous
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
5. Fiduciary
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► 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.