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. Fatuous
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
2. Reparation
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
3. Circumlocution
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
4. Mitosis
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
5. Quasar
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
