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. Facetious
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
2. Bellicose
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
3. Supercilious
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
4. Paradigm
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
5. Winnow
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
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