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. circumference
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
2. outlandish
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
3. restitution
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► A process of compensation for losses.
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
4. jabber
► To completely engage the attention of.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
5. brandish
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.