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. Lugubrious
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► To proceed completely around:
2. Filibuster
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
3. Antebellum
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
4. Epiphany
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
5. Parabola
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
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