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. Laissez faire
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
2. Homogeneous
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
3. Winnow
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
4. Churlish
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
5. Metamorphosis
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
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