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.
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. Irony
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
2. Recapitulate
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
3. Reciprocal
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
4. Paradigm
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
5. Belie
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
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