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
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
2. Chromosome
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
3. Respiration
► To proceed completely around:
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
4. Abrogate
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
5. Notarize
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
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