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. jostle
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
► The dividing line or location between two areas.
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
2. ensure
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
3. malleable
► The result or outcome of a cause.
4. primarily
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► Of a central nature, first and foremost
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
5. circumference
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air