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. Totalitarian
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
2. Xenophobe
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
3. Hegemony
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
4. Bellicose
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► To proceed completely around:
5. Ziggurat
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.