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. compose
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► To make something by merging parts.
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
2. terse
► Brief, concise, to the point.
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
3. evidence
► A mixture of various ingredients or elements.
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
4. influence
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
5. majority
► Of a central nature, first and foremost
► The source or reason of an event or action
► More than half (50%) of some group
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.