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. Tautology
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
2. Facetious
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
3. Acumen
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
4. Deciduous
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
5. Evanescent
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
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