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. Nadir
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
2. Enfranchise
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
3. Filibuster
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
4. Moiety
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
5. Gamete
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable