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. Chromosome
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
2. Polymer
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► To proceed completely around:
3. Detritus
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
4. Reciprocal
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
5. Nadir
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
