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. Gauche
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
2. Equinox
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
3. Vortex
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
4. Enfranchise
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
5. Usurp
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
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