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. Jejune
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
2. Kinetic
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
3. Facetious
► To proceed completely around:
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
4. Detritus
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► To make an accusation against.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
5. Deciduous
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
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.