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. Evanescent
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
2. 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:
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
3. Pecuniary
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
4. Usurp
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
5. Fiduciary
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.