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. Gerrymander
2. Reparation
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
3. Feckless
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
4. Infrastructure
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
5. Gamete
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.