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. Temblor
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
2. Obsequious
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
3. Contradiction
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
4. Parabola
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
5. Winnow
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
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