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
► To bring under control; conquer.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
2. Lugubrious
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
3. Chromosome
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
4. Contradiction
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
5. Diffident
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
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