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. Diffident
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
2. Precipitous
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
3. Antebellum
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
4. Nanotechnology
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
5. Gamete
► To make an accusation against.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
