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. Oxidize
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
2. Nihilism
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
3. Jejune
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
4. Wrought
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
5. Quotidian
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► A diligent, dependable worker.
