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. Lugubrious
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
2. Hubris
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
3. Infrastructure
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
4. Paradigm
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
5. Detritus
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
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.