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. Gauche
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
2. Wrought
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
3. Totalitarian
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► To bring under control; conquer.
4. Contradiction
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
5. Taxonomy
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Division into ordered groups or categories.