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. Feckless
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
2. Thermodynamics
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
3. Vortex
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
4. Nanotechnology
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
5. Supercilious
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.