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. Evanescent
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
2. Gamete
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
3. Fiduciary
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
4. Ziggurat
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
5. Incontrovertible
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable