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. Filibuster
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
2. Hypotenuse
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
3. Lucid
► To proceed completely around:
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
4. Evanescent
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
5. Epiphany
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
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