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. Vacuous
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
2. Diffident
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
3. Omnipotent
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
4. Detritus
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
5. Tempestuous
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
