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. Reparation
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
2. Homogeneous
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
3. Reciprocal
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
4. Lucid
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
5. Abrogate
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
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