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. Yeoman
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
2. Antebellum
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
3. Quotidian
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
4. Nomenclature
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
5. Totalitarian
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.