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. Bellicose
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
2. Incontrovertible
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► To make an accusation against.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
3. Vehement
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► To proceed completely around:
4. Ziggurat
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
5. Obsequious
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
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