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. Respiration
► To make an accusation against.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
2. Paradigm
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
3. Abstemious
► To proceed completely around:
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
4. Omnipotent
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
5. Vacuous
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.