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. Quotidian
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
2. Lugubrious
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
3. Belie
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
4. Yeoman
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
5. Hemoglobin
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.