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. Impeach
► To make an accusation against.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
2. Ziggurat
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
3. Bellicose
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
4. Tautology
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
5. Jejune
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
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