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. Plasma
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
2. Nadir
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
3. Reparation
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
4. Gamete
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
5. Antebellum
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.