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. aptitude
► Brief, concise, to the point.
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
2. swagger
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► The extent to which something matters; importance
3. specimen
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
4. disdain
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
5. illuminate
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► To clarify or make something understandable
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
©2020 Boston Herald in Education and Online Publications Inc. and NIEonline.com
