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. Totalitarian
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
2. Plasma
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► To bring under control; conquer.
3. Jejune
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
4. Circumlocution
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
5. Inculcate
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary