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. Totalitarian
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
2. Oxidize
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
3. Nadir
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
4. Nanotechnology
► A system of names used in an art or science:
5. Contradiction
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
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