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. Temblor
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
2. Orthography
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
3. Soliloquy
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
4. Chicanery
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
5. Polymer
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
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