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. Nihilism
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
2. Churlish
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
3. Incognito
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
4. Kinetic
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
5. Temblor
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
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