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. degree
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
2. foresight
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
3. engross
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
► To completely engage the attention of.
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
4. analogy
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
5. materialize
► Capable of doing many things competently
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
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