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. Nonsectarian
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
2. Chromosome
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
3. Inculcate
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
4. Abjure
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
5. Nadir
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality