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. Nihilism
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
2. Bellicose
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
3. Orthography
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
4. Chicanery
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
5. Hypotenuse
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
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