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. Nihilism
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
2. Lucid
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
3. Enervate
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
4. Epiphany
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
5. Auspicious
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.