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. Pecuniary
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
2. Hegemony
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
3. Lexicon
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
4. Antebellum
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
5. Deciduous
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
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