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. Wrought
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
2. Vacuous
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
3. Respiration
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
4. Irony
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
5. Photosynthesis
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► A diligent, dependable worker.