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. Omnipotent
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
2. Laissez faire
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
3. Feckless
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
4. Reciprocal
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
5. Metamorphosis
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
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