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. Auspicious
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
2. Circumnavigate
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► To proceed completely around:
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
3. Equinox
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
4. Lugubrious
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
5. Circumlocution
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.