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. Nomenclature
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
2. Churlish
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
3. Detritus
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
4. Oligarchy
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
5. Hubris
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.