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. Abjure
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
2. Lexicon
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
3. Paradigm
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
4. Deleterious
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
5. Reciprocal
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
