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. Plasma
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
2. Circumnavigate
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► To proceed completely around:
3. Epiphany
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
4. Thermodynamics
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
5. Oxidize
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.