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. Oxidize
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► To make an accusation against.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
2. Supercilious
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
3. Taxonomy
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
4. Totalitarian
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
5. Irony
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
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