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. waft
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
2. swarm
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
3. element
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► Brief, concise, to the point.
4. establish
► Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► A process of compensation for losses.
5. imperious
► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
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