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. Hemoglobin
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
2. Belie
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
3. Xenophobe
► To proceed completely around:
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
4. Suffragist
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
5. Nanotechnology
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.