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. Notarize
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
2. Auspicious
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
3. Wrought
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
4. Suffragist
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
5. Interpolate
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.