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 phrase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to its 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. Respiration
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
2. Evanescent
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
3. Precipitous
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
4. Filibuster
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
5. Laissez faire
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.