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 phase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to it's 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. Usurp
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
2. Churlish
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
3. Nihilism
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
4. Bowdlerize
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
5. Pecuniary
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
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