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. Subjugate
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
2. Obsequious
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
3. Incontrovertible
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
4. Facetious
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
5. Contradiction
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
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