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. Tempestuous
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
2. Nanotechnology
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
3. Euro
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
4. Tautology
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
5. Subjugate
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.