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. Xenophobe
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
2. Taxonomy
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
3. Acumen
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
4. Quotidian
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
5. Kowtow
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.