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. Abrogate
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
2. Hegemony
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
3. Epiphany
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
4. Contradiction
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
5. Mitosis
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
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