Resources for Bay Area
Teachers and Students
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. Reciprocal
► To bring under control; conquer.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
2. Paradigm
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
3. Suffragist
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
4. Kinetic
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
5. Homogeneous
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► To proceed completely around: