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. Usurp
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
2. Gauche
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
3. Totalitarian
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
4. Nomenclature
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► To proceed completely around:
5. Tempestuous
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
