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. Recapitulate
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
2. Nanotechnology
3. Precipitous
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
4. Diffident
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
5. Paradigm
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.