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. Deleterious
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
2. Pecuniary
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
3. Expurgate
► To proceed completely around:
4. Obsequious
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
5. Enfranchise
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
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.