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
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
2. Gamete
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► To make an accusation against.
3. Kowtow
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► To make an accusation against.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
4. Gerrymander
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
5. Jejune
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
