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. Reparation
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
2. Detritus
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
3. Temblor
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
4. Nihilism
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
5. Expurgate
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
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