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. dismal
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
2. affect
► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
3. except
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
4. document
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
5. apprehensive
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable