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. Sanguine
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
2. Quotidian
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
3. Expurgate
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
4. Chicanery
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
5. Oligarchy
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
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