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. Homogeneous
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
2. Reciprocal
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► To proceed completely around:
3. Taxonomy
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
4. Contradiction
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
5. Laissez faire
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
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.