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. Jejune
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
2. Pecuniary
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
3. Quasar
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
4. Loquacious
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
5. Homogeneous
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
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