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 phase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to it's 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. Abrogate
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
2. Interpolate
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
3. Churlish
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
4. Lugubrious
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
5. Nomenclature
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
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