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. Tempestuous
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
2. Pecuniary
► To proceed completely around:
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
3. Impeach
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► To make an accusation against.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
4. Enfranchise
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
5. Suffragist
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
