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. Bowdlerize
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
2. Abjure
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
3. Yeoman
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
4. Nihilism
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
5. Photosynthesis
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
