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. Vacuous
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
2. Hemoglobin
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
3. Circumlocution
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
4. Subjugate
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
5. Expurgate
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
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