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. Polymer
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
2. Suffragist
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
3. Abjure
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
4. Hubris
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
5. Paradigm
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
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