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. Deciduous
► To make an accusation against.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
2. Gauche
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
3. Sanguine
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
4. Evanescent
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► To bring under control; conquer.
5. Precipitous
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
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