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. Incognito
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
2. Antebellum
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
3. Quasar
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
4. Gauche
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
5. Moiety
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
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