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
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
2. Paradigm
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
3. Temblor
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
4. Tautology
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
5. Vortex
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
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.