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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. topic
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► The result or outcome of a cause.
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
2. gusto
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
3. headway
► To clarify or make something understandable
► To make something by merging parts.
► A great amount or number, often of people.
4. kindle
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
5. recluse
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
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