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. Circumlocution
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
2. Evanescent
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
3. Ziggurat
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
4. Incontrovertible
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
5. Hemoglobin
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.