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. Irony
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
2. Supercilious
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
3. Suffragist
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
4. Wrought
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
5. Chicanery
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
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