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. Pecuniary
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
2. Obsequious
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
3. Parameter
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
4. Gerrymander
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
5. Paradigm
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
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.