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. Incognito
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
2. Gerrymander
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
3. Facetious
► To make an accusation against.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
4. Kowtow
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
5. Abrogate
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.