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. Oxidize
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
2. Hypotenuse
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
3. Churlish
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
4. Photosynthesis
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
5. Quotidian
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.