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. Metamorphosis
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
2. Impeach
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► To make an accusation against.
3. Abjure
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
4. Belie
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
5. Detritus
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
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