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. Photosynthesis
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
2. Feckless
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
3. Vehement
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
4. Oxidize
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
5. Incognito
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
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