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. Paradigm
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
2. Deciduous
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
3. Hypotenuse
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
4. Oligarchy
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
5. Equinox
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
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.