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. potential
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
2. habitation
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► More than half (50%) of some group
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
3. chronological
► To completely engage the attention of.
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
4. function
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
► What something does or is used for.
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
5. sabotage
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.