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. Irony
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► To proceed completely around:
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
2. Photosynthesis
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
3. Evanescent
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
4. Nomenclature
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
5. Thermodynamics
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
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