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. destination
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
► More than half (50%) of some group
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
2. emerge
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
3. frequency
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
4. degree
► To make something by merging parts.
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
5. gusto
► Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.