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. source
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
► Capable of doing many things competently
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
2. jargon
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
3. analyze
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
4. analogy
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
5. translucent
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.