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. Kowtow
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
2. Winnow
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
3. Auspicious
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
4. Chicanery
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
5. Deciduous
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth: