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. Hubris
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
2. Thermodynamics
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
3. Photosynthesis
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
4. Temblor
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
5. Nonsectarian
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.