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. Plasma
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
2. Deciduous
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
3. Nadir
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
4. Epiphany
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
5. Irony
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
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.