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 phase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to it's 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. Inculcate
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
2. Yeoman
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
3. Circumlocution
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
4. Infrastructure
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
5. Thermodynamics
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
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