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. Notarize
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
2. Hubris
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
3. Nomenclature
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
4. Churlish
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
5. Bowdlerize
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
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