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. Feckless
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
2. Incontrovertible
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
3. Fatuous
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
4. Metamorphosis
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
5. Enervate
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
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.