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 phase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to it's 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. source
► The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
2. habitation
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
3. impending
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
► A glowing piece of coal or wood.
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
4. precipice
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
5. quell
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
► A measurement one can compare to.
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