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. Pecuniary
► To proceed completely around:
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
2. Inculcate
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
3. Metamorphosis
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
4. Gamete
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
5. Homogeneous
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
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