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. uncanny
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► To completely engage the attention of.
2. deft
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
3. area
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► A particular geographic region.
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
4. apprehensive
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
► The source or reason of an event or action
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
5. vulnerable
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.