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. Orthography
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
2. Subjugate
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
3. Respiration
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
4. Nomenclature
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
5. Wrought
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
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