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. Kinetic
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
2. Respiration
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
3. Recapitulate
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
4. Subjugate
► To bring under control; conquer.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
5. Hypotenuse
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.