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. Churlish
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
2. Vacuous
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
3. Nihilism
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
4. Homogeneous
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
5. Soliloquy
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.