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. Belie
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
2. Xenophobe
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
3. Supercilious
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
4. Mitosis
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
5. Suffragist
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► To make an accusation against.
