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. Tautology
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
2. Epiphany
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
3. Tectonic
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
4. Recapitulate
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
5. Sanguine
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► To proceed completely around:
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
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