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. Gauche
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
2. Detritus
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
3. Kinetic
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
4. Totalitarian
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
5. Diffident
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.