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. Bellicose
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
2. Paradigm
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
3. Hegemony
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
4. Enfranchise
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
5. Chromosome
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
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