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. Auspicious
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
2. Antebellum
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
3. Parameter
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
4. Recapitulate
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
5. Homogeneous
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
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