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. Subjugate
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
2. Circumnavigate
► To proceed completely around:
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
3. Respiration
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
4. Usurp
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
5. Tautology
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.