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 phase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to it's 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. Nanotechnology
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
2. Parabola
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
3. Abrogate
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
4. Abjure
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
5. Lucid
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.