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. Usurp
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
2. Diffident
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
3. Nonsectarian
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
4. Churlish
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
5. Euro
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.