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. evidence
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
2. brandish
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
3. materialize
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
4. exhilarate
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
5. egregious
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► More than half (50%) of some group
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed