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. significance
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► To clarify or make something understandable
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
2. dispel
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
3. cunning
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
► A measurement one can compare to.
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
4. engross
► To completely engage the attention of.
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
5. compose
► To make something by merging parts.
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
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