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. tactic
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
2. multitude
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
► A process of compensation for losses.
► A great amount or number, often of people.
3. dispel
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
4. method
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
5. vigilant
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
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