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. Expurgate
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
2. Infrastructure
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
3. Incognito
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
4. Kinetic
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
5. Nonsectarian
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.