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. Bowdlerize
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
2. Moiety
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
3. Abstemious
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
4. Chicanery
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
5. Totalitarian
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.