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. Metamorphosis
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► To bring under control; conquer.
2. Nadir
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
3. Hemoglobin
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
4. Bowdlerize
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
5. Pecuniary
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.