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. Omnipotent
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
2. Fiduciary
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
3. Nihilism
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
4. Abstemious
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
5. Vacuous
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.