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 phase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to it's 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. Lugubrious
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
2. Vortex
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
3. Thermodynamics
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
4. Circumnavigate
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► To proceed completely around:
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
5. Churlish
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.