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. Equinox
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
2. Tautology
► To proceed completely around:
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
3. Unctuous
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
4. Contradiction
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
5. Supercilious
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
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