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 Elementary 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. document
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
2. recluse
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
3. meander
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
4. dispel
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► The source or reason of an event or action
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
5. deft
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.