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. Nadir
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
2. Supercilious
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► To make an accusation against.
3. Reparation
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
4. Incontrovertible
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
5. Circumnavigate
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► To proceed completely around:
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.