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. Contradiction
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
2. Gauche
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
3. Obsequious
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
4. Subjugate
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► To bring under control; conquer.
5. Sanguine
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
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