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. Yeoman
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
2. Orthography
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
3. Respiration
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
4. Contradiction
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
5. Kinetic
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.