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. Chromosome
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
2. Respiration
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
3. Hemoglobin
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
4. Lexicon
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
5. Soliloquy
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
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