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. luminous
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
2. function
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► What something does or is used for.
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
3. obscure
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
4. versatile
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► Capable of doing many things competently
5. vigilant
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► To clarify or make something understandable
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary