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. Auspicious
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
2. Infrastructure
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
3. Quasar
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
4. Paradigm
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
5. Circumnavigate
► To bring under control; conquer.
► To proceed completely around:
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.