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. Kowtow
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
2. Auspicious
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
3. Gerrymander
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
4. Metamorphosis
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
5. Nihilism
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.