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. Epiphany
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
2. Reciprocal
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
3. Fiduciary
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
4. Deleterious
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
5. Supercilious
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
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.