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. Hypotenuse
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
2. Tempestuous
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
3. Vortex
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
4. Fatuous
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
5. Winnow
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.