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. Churlish
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
2. Circumnavigate
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► To proceed completely around:
► To bring under control; conquer.
3. Omnipotent
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
4. Notarize
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
5. Acumen
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.