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. Notarize
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
2. Facetious
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
3. Lucid
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
4. Precipitous
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
5. Filibuster
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
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