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. Parabola
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
2. Belie
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
3. Contradiction
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
4. Antebellum
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
5. Oligarchy
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► To make an accusation against.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
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.