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. Evanescent
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
2. Circumnavigate
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► To proceed completely around:
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
3. Recapitulate
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
4. Precipitous
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
5. Infrastructure
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
