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. Reparation
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
2. Enervate
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
3. Lexicon
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
4. Circumlocution
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
5. Parabola
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
