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. Contradiction
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
2. Diffident
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
3. Incontrovertible
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
4. Deleterious
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
5. Hypotenuse
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
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