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. Irony
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
2. Detritus
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
3. Oxidize
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
4. Gerrymander
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
5. Paradigm
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.