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. Enfranchise
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
2. Pecuniary
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
3. Parameter
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
4. Fatuous
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
5. Unctuous
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
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.