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. Laissez faire
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
2. Soliloquy
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
3. Chromosome
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
4. Paradigm
► To make an accusation against.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
5. Infrastructure
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
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.