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. Paradigm
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► 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.
2. Deciduous
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
3. Enervate
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
4. Thermodynamics
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
5. Belie
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.