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. Loquacious
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
2. Thermodynamics
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
3. Polymer
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
4. Vortex
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
5. Nonsectarian
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
