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. Bellicose
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
2. Vehement
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
3. Tempestuous
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
4. Moiety
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
5. Feckless
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.