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. Jejune
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
2. Homogeneous
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
3. Nihilism
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
4. Reparation
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
5. Circumlocution
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable