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. Antebellum
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
2. Ziggurat
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
3. Kowtow
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
4. Supercilious
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
5. Unctuous
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.