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. Reciprocal
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
2. Irony
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
3. Omnipotent
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
4. Respiration
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
5. Fatuous
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
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.