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. Unctuous
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
2. Irony
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
3. Facetious
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
4. Vehement
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
5. Obsequious
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
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