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. Kinetic
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
2. Deciduous
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
3. Hubris
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
4. Reciprocal
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
5. Incontrovertible
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.