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. Infrastructure
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
2. Lugubrious
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
3. Kinetic
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
4. Paradigm
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
5. Antebellum
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
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.