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. Vortex
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
2. Precipitous
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
3. Laissez faire
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
4. Parabola
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
5. Nanotechnology
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
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.