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. Detritus
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
2. Chromosome
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
3. Chicanery
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
4. Abrogate
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
5. Oligarchy
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.