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. Plasma
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
2. Equinox
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
3. Reparation
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
4. Vortex
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
5. Abjure
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
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