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. Vacuous
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
2. Quasar
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
3. Reciprocal
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
4. Mitosis
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
5. Tectonic
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
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