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. Gauche
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
2. Reciprocal
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
3. Irony
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To make an accusation against.
4. Polymer
► To make an accusation against.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
5. Circumlocution
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
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