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. Enervate
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
2. Plasma
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
3. Feckless
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
4. Paradigm
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
5. Evanescent
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.