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. Parabola
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
2. Reciprocal
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
3. Parameter
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
4. Infrastructure
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
5. Vehement
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
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.