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. jostle
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
2. relationship
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
3. guarantee
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
4. serenity
► Self-confidence; poise; composure.
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
5. recluse
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
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