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. economy
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
2. scurry
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
3. meander
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
4. diminish
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
5. reflection
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
► To build or form something by assembling parts.