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. Reciprocal
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
2. Deciduous
► 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.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
3. Lucid
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
4. Respiration
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
5. Nomenclature
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
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.