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 phase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to it's 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. multitude
► A great amount or number, often of people.
► The source or reason of an event or action
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
2. minority
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
3. outlandish
► To clarify or make something understandable
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
4. malleable
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
5. vulnerable
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► To completely engage the attention of.