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. Lucid
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
2. Nihilism
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
3. Moiety
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
4. Paradigm
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
5. Tautology
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.