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. Wrought
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
2. Oligarchy
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
3. Circumnavigate
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► To proceed completely around:
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
4. Supercilious
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
5. Parabola
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.