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
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
2. Nanotechnology
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
3. Reciprocal
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
4. Mitosis
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
5. Lucid
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
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.