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. Filibuster
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
2. Xenophobe
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
3. Usurp
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
4. Bellicose
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
5. Evanescent
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
