Resources for Bay Area
Teachers and Students
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. Recapitulate
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
2. Bellicose
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
3. Obsequious
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
4. Plasma
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
5. Parabola
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.