
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
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
2. meticulous
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
3. guarantee
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
4. jostle
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
5. unsightly
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
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