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. Equinox
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
2. Deciduous
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
3. Vortex
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
4. Paradigm
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
5. Nihilism
► To make an accusation against.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
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.