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. Moiety
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
2. Vehement
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► To proceed completely around:
3. Thermodynamics
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
4. Euro
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
5. Ziggurat
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
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