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. Notarize
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
2. Suffragist
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
3. Oligarchy
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
4. Respiration
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
5. Circumlocution
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
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