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. Incognito
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
2. Bellicose
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
3. Circumlocution
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► To make an accusation against.
4. Inculcate
► To make an accusation against.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► To proceed completely around:
5. Facetious
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
