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. foresight
► The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
2. stamina
► More than half (50%) of some group
3. economy
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
4. apprehensive
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
5. disdain
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch