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. Tectonic
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► To make an accusation against.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
2. Nadir
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
3. Supercilious
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
4. Nihilism
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
5. Kinetic
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
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