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. Contradiction
► To make an accusation against.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
2. Photosynthesis
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
3. Obsequious
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
4. Abjure
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
5. Oligarchy
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
