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. impact
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
2. exhilarate
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
3. analogy
► Brief, concise, to the point.
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
4. source
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► The result or outcome of a cause.
► To completely engage the attention of.
5. waver
► To completely engage the attention of.
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
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