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. Enfranchise
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
2. Vacuous
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
3. Deleterious
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
4. Bellicose
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
5. Gamete
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth: