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. Quasar
2. Mitosis
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
3. Deleterious
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
4. Enervate
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
5. Omnipotent
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► To make an accusation against.