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. Temblor
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
2. Gamete
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
3. Hegemony
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
4. Kinetic
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
5. Ziggurat
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
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