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. vulnerable
► The result or outcome of a cause.
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
2. translucent
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
3. sociable
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
4. falter
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
5. current
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed