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. influence
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
2. pertinent
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
3. scurry
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
4. boundary
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► The dividing line or location between two areas.
► What something does or is used for.
5. serenity
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
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