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
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
2. Abrogate
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
3. Tautology
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
4. Xenophobe
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
5. Irony
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
©2025 Boston Herald in Education and Online Publications Inc. and NIEonline.com
