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. Temblor
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► To proceed completely around:
2. Nanotechnology
► To proceed completely around:
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
3. Hubris
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► To make an accusation against.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
4. Orthography
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
5. Nihilism
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.