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. Bowdlerize
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
2. Photosynthesis
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
3. Lugubrious
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
4. Nonsectarian
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
5. Vacuous
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.