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. Enfranchise
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
2. Parameter
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
3. Yeoman
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
4. Acumen
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
5. Evanescent
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
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