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. Enervate
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
2. Fatuous
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
3. Tautology
► To proceed completely around:
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
4. Chicanery
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
5. Enfranchise
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.