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. Inculcate
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
2. Gamete
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
3. Reparation
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To make an accusation against.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
4. Laissez faire
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
5. Abrogate
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
