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. Tectonic
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
2. Abstemious
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► To make an accusation against.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
3. Nonsectarian
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
4. Interpolate
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
5. Evanescent
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
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