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. furtive
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
2. ember
► Self-confidence; poise; composure.
► A glowing piece of coal or wood.
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
3. frequency
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► More than half (50%) of some group
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
4. recluse
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
5. chronological
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
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