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. Hubris
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
2. Parabola
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
3. Irony
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
4. Gamete
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
5. Suffragist
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.