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
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► To proceed completely around:
2. Expurgate
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
3. Vehement
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
4. Mitosis
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
5. Kinetic
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
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