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. Auspicious
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
2. Euro
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
3. Circumnavigate
► To proceed completely around:
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
4. Nihilism
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
5. Paradigm
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
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.