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. function
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► What something does or is used for.
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
2. frequency
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
3. exhilarate
► More than half (50%) of some group
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
4. fragrance
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
5. jabber
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress