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. Euro
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
2. Infrastructure
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► To proceed completely around:
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
3. Kowtow
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
4. Kinetic
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
5. Tectonic
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
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