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. Recapitulate
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
2. Bowdlerize
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
3. Thermodynamics
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
4. Xenophobe
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
5. Evanescent
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
