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. Reciprocal
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
2. Enfranchise
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
3. Circumlocution
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
4. Nihilism
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
5. Inculcate
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
