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
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
2. Chromosome
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
3. Suffragist
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
4. Thermodynamics
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
5. Nadir
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.