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. Thermodynamics
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
2. Obsequious
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
3. Feckless
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
4. Fiduciary
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
5. Parabola
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
