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. Abrogate
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
2. Churlish
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
3. Sanguine
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
4. Belie
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
5. Totalitarian
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
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