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. Oxidize
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
2. Abjure
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
3. Impeach
► To make an accusation against.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
4. Tautology
► 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.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
5. Interpolate
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
