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. Polymer
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
2. Supercilious
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
3. Soliloquy
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
4. Facetious
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
5. Fatuous
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
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