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. Nomenclature
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
2. Abjure
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
3. Impeach
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► To make an accusation against.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
4. Nonsectarian
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
5. Gauche
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
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