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. Detritus
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
2. Lucid
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
3. Suffragist
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
4. Nihilism
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
5. Laissez faire
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► To proceed completely around:
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
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