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. Precipitous
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
2. Respiration
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
3. Yeoman
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
4. Parameter
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
5. Irony
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
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