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. Filibuster
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
2. Sanguine
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
3. Diffident
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
4. Feckless
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
5. Nihilism
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
