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 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. Suffragist
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
2. Nonsectarian
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
3. Evanescent
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
4. Vortex
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
5. Filibuster
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.