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. zeal
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
2. topic
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
3. analyze
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
4. abolish
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
► A particular geographic region.
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
5. debris
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
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