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. Totalitarian
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
2. Hemoglobin
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
3. Precipitous
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
4. Paradigm
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
5. Vortex
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► 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.