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. Lexicon
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
2. Parabola
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
3. Quotidian
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
4. Auspicious
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
5. Epiphany
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
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.