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. Moiety
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► To make an accusation against.
2. Laissez faire
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
3. Oligarchy
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
4. Homogeneous
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
5. Reciprocal
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.