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. Chicanery
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
2. Obsequious
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
3. Recapitulate
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
4. Paradigm
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
5. Winnow
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
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.