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. Tectonic
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
2. Gamete
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
3. Respiration
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
4. Subjugate
► To bring under control; conquer.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
5. Interpolate
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.