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. Oxidize
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
2. Xenophobe
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
3. Circumlocution
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
4. Chicanery
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
5. Circumnavigate
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► To proceed completely around:
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
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