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. Omnipotent
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
2. Hypotenuse
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
3. Paradigm
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
4. Tempestuous
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
5. Homogeneous
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
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.