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. Irony
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
2. Abrogate
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
3. Nadir
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
4. Parabola
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
5. Kinetic
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► 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.