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. Yeoman
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
2. Abrogate
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
3. Suffragist
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
4. Usurp
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
5. Feckless
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
