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. Nanotechnology
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
2. Hypotenuse
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To make an accusation against.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
3. Circumnavigate
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► To proceed completely around:
4. Incognito
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
5. Fiduciary
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind