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
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
2. Oligarchy
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
3. Suffragist
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
4. Incontrovertible
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
5. Moiety
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