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. Churlish
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► To proceed completely around:
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
2. Acumen
► To proceed completely around:
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
3. Oxidize
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
4. Deleterious
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
5. Quotidian
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
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