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. abolish
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
2. somber
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
3. method
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
4. reflection
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
5. gusto
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
► Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
► Of a central nature, first and foremost
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.