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. Hubris
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
2. Wrought
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► To proceed completely around:
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
3. Thermodynamics
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
4. Detritus
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
5. Abjure
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.