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. Fatuous
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
2. Recapitulate
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
3. Euro
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
4. Vortex
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
5. Abrogate
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► To proceed completely around:
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.