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. Oligarchy
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
2. Epiphany
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
3. Yeoman
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► To proceed completely around:
► A diligent, dependable worker.
4. Nanotechnology
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
5. Precipitous
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.