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. Parabola
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
2. Vacuous
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
3. Abstemious
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
4. Oligarchy
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
5. Usurp
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
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