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. Detritus
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
2. Nanotechnology
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
3. Photosynthesis
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
4. Chromosome
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
5. Plasma
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► To bring under control; conquer.