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 phase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to it's 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. Diffident
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To make an accusation against.
2. Mitosis
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► To bring under control; conquer.
3. Enervate
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
4. Jejune
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
5. Wrought
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.