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. Homogeneous
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
2. Totalitarian
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► To make an accusation against.
3. Hypotenuse
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
4. Tempestuous
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
5. Incognito
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To proceed completely around:
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
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