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. Nonsectarian
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
2. Enfranchise
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To make an accusation against.
3. Antebellum
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
4. Lugubrious
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
5. Ziggurat
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
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