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. Kinetic
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
2. Totalitarian
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
3. Evanescent
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
4. Polymer
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► A system of names used in an art or science:
5. Loquacious
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
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