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. Taxonomy
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
2. Unctuous
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
3. Fatuous
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
4. Nomenclature
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
5. Inculcate
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
