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. Enervate
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
2. Supercilious
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
3. Paradigm
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
4. Recapitulate
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
5. Taxonomy
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
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.