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. Fatuous
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
2. Parameter
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
3. Soliloquy
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
4. Nonsectarian
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
5. Omnipotent
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
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