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. multitude
► A great amount or number, often of people.
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
2. degree
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
3. aplomb
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
► Self-confidence; poise; composure.
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
4. conspicuous
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
5. emerge
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
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