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. Ziggurat
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
2. Antebellum
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
3. Suffragist
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
4. Deciduous
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
5. Winnow
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
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