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. Omnipotent
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
2. Homogeneous
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
3. Oxidize
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
4. Fatuous
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
5. Quotidian
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.