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. Paradigm
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
2. Abstemious
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
3. Plasma
4. Lexicon
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
5. Vacuous
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.