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. Evanescent
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
2. Churlish
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
3. Deleterious
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
4. Abstemious
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
5. Bowdlerize
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► To bring under control; conquer.
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