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. Thermodynamics
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
2. Interpolate
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
3. Tempestuous
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
4. Belie
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
5. Tautology
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► To proceed completely around:
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
