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. Fiduciary
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
2. Enfranchise
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
3. Nanotechnology
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
4. Nihilism
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
5. Wrought
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
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