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. Vortex
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► 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.
2. Epiphany
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
3. Auspicious
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
4. Enfranchise
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
5. Paradigm
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
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.