Resources for Bay Area
Teachers and Students
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. Evanescent
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
2. Nomenclature
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
3. Chromosome
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
4. Kinetic
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
5. Oxidize
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.