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. sabotage
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
2. multitude
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► A measurement one can compare to.
► A great amount or number, often of people.
3. significance
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
4. defiance
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
5. scurry
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number