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. Antebellum
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
2. Temblor
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
3. Nadir
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
4. Kinetic
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
5. Usurp
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
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