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. Reparation
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
2. Irony
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
3. Homogeneous
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
4. Respiration
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
5. Diffident
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
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.