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.
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. Paradigm
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
2. Pecuniary
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
3. Nonsectarian
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
4. Chicanery
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
5. Vehement
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.