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. somber
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
2. repugnant
► More than half (50%) of some group
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► Brief, concise, to the point.
3. illuminate
► The result or outcome of a cause.
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► To clarify or make something understandable
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
4. unsightly
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
5. zeal
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
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