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
► To proceed completely around:
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
2. Enervate
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
3. Vehement
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
4. Suffragist
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
5. Gamete
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
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