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. Paradigm
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
3. Oligarchy
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
4. Nadir
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
5. Thermodynamics
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
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