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
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
2. Omnipotent
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
3. Gerrymander
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
4. Lugubrious
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
5. Notarize
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.