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. Obsequious
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
2. Abjure
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
3. Gamete
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
4. Photosynthesis
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
5. Lugubrious
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.