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. Evanescent
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
2. Recapitulate
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
3. Euro
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
4. Filibuster
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
5. Impeach
► To make an accusation against.
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