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 phase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to it's 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
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
2. replenish
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► Of a central nature, first and foremost
3. hasten
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► Of a central nature, first and foremost
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
4. reference
► A measurement one can compare to.
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
5. analogy
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► A process of compensation for losses.
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
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