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. Interpolate
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
2. Totalitarian
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
3. Kinetic
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
4. Facetious
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
5. Acumen
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.