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. Reciprocal
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
2. Laissez faire
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
3. Infrastructure
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
4. Soliloquy
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
5. Quotidian
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
