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. Vehement
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
2. Supercilious
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
3. Lucid
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
4. Suffragist
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
5. Irony
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
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