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. Photosynthesis
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
2. Churlish
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
3. Recapitulate
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
4. Contradiction
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
5. Diffident
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
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