Resources for Bay Area
Teachers and Students
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 phase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to it's 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. Suffragist
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
2. Lucid
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► To proceed completely around:
3. Acumen
► To proceed completely around:
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
4. Ziggurat
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
5. Fiduciary
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.