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
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► A system of names used in an art or science:
2. Fiduciary
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
3. Sanguine
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
4. Irony
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
5. Deciduous
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
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