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. fragrance
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► Capable of doing many things competently
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
2. monotonous
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
3. compose
► To make something by merging parts.
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
4. contributions
► More than half (50%) of some group
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
5. jostle
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.