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. Lugubrious
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
2. Quasar
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
3. Suffragist
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
4. Deciduous
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► To bring under control; conquer.
5. Photosynthesis
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
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