
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. attentive
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
2. impact
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
3. quell
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
4. imperious
► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
5. conspicuous
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► More than half (50%) of some group
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