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. Loquacious
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
2. Detritus
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► To bring under control; conquer.
3. Enervate
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
4. Photosynthesis
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
5. Chicanery
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
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