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. ensure
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
2. uncanny
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
3. evidence
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
4. barricade
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
5. headway
► The dividing line or location between two areas.
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
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