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. Sanguine
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
2. Paradigm
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
3. Nanotechnology
► 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.
4. Auspicious
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
5. Hemoglobin
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► 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.