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. Omnipotent
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
2. Gerrymander
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► To bring under control; conquer.
3. Precipitous
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
4. Nomenclature
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
5. Bowdlerize
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
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