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
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
2. Kowtow
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
3. Detritus
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
4. Mitosis
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
5. Recapitulate
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
Additional resources
Colorado NIE Weekly lessons
Colorado NIE Youth Content
- Colorado Kids Wordbank
- Colorado Kids Assessment Test
- Colorado Kids Web Links
- Become a Youth Reporter
- Kid Scoop
- Mini Page
Lessons & Classroom Activities
- Cartoons for the Classroom
- Front Page Talking Points
- This Week in History
- News Video
- News Quiz
- Daily Science Webcasts
- Geography in the News quiz
- NASA Space Place
Resources by grade level