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. Parameter
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
2. Ziggurat
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
3. Nonsectarian
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
4. Feckless
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
5. Winnow
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
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.