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. Vortex
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
2. Detritus
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
3. Totalitarian
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
4. Enfranchise
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
5. Hemoglobin
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
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