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. Winnow
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
2. Obsequious
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
3. Subjugate
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
4. Lugubrious
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
5. Nadir
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.