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. Reparation
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
2. Hypotenuse
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
3. Abrogate
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
4. Gerrymander
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
5. Vacuous
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
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