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. Fatuous
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
2. Gamete
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
3. Evanescent
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
4. Interpolate
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
5. Thermodynamics
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.