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. Inculcate
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
2. Abrogate
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
3. Fatuous
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► To proceed completely around:
4. Plasma
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
5. Jejune
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
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