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. Precipitous
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
2. Inculcate
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► To bring under control; conquer.
3. Paradigm
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
4. Gerrymander
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
5. Expurgate
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
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.