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. Chicanery
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
2. Churlish
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
3. Kinetic
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
4. Xenophobe
► 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:
5. Antebellum
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
