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. Gerrymander
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
2. Supercilious
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
3. Paradigm
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
4. Abjure
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
5. Deleterious
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
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.