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. Soliloquy
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
2. Notarize
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
3. Hegemony
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
4. Tectonic
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
5. Churlish
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
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