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. Temblor
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
2. Fatuous
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
3. Suffragist
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
4. Vacuous
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
5. Inculcate
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.