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. Infrastructure
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
2. Kinetic
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
3. Parabola
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
4. Precipitous
► To proceed completely around:
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
5. Fatuous
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.