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. Recapitulate
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► To make an accusation against.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
2. Laissez faire
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
3. Yeoman
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
4. Deleterious
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
5. Inculcate
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.