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. Metamorphosis
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
2. Soliloquy
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
3. Enervate
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
4. Detritus
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
5. Hypotenuse
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.