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. Deleterious
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
2. Obsequious
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
3. Usurp
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
4. Vehement
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
5. Paradigm
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.