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 phase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to it's 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. Totalitarian
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
2. Omnipotent
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
3. Contradiction
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
4. Abstemious
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
5. Reparation
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.