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. Vehement
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
2. Yeoman
► A diligent, dependable worker.
3. Hypotenuse
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
4. Unctuous
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
5. Deciduous
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
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