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. Inculcate
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
2. Lugubrious
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
3. Suffragist
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
4. Bellicose
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
5. Incontrovertible
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable