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. Notarize
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
2. Facetious
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
3. Parameter
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
4. Tempestuous
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
5. Mitosis
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
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