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
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
2. Euro
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
3. Deleterious
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
4. Infrastructure
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
5. Interpolate
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
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.