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. Xenophobe
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
2. Wrought
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
3. Obsequious
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
4. Hemoglobin
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
5. Gerrymander
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
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