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. Evanescent
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
2. Yeoman
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
3. Gauche
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
4. Tectonic
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
5. Antebellum
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
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