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. Kinetic
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
2. Parabola
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
3. Lexicon
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
4. Recapitulate
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
5. Parameter
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
