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. Interpolate
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
2. Sanguine
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
3. Enervate
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
4. Deleterious
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
5. Jejune
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
