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. Deciduous
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
2. Expurgate
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► To proceed completely around:
3. Auspicious
► To proceed completely around:
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
4. Mitosis
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
5. Orthography
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.