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
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
2. Tautology
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
3. Irony
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
4. Lugubrious
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
5. Facetious
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