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. Diffident
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
2. Lucid
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
3. Interpolate
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
4. Thermodynamics
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
5. Enfranchise
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
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