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. influence
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
2. serenity
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
3. detail
► The dividing line or location between two areas.
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
► What something does or is used for.
4. contributions
► A process of compensation for losses.
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
5. impact
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
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