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. Subjugate
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
2. Enfranchise
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
3. Xenophobe
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
4. Oligarchy
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
5. Circumlocution
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
