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. waft
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
2. somber
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
3. infer
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
4. source
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► The dividing line or location between two areas.
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
5. except
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► A mixture of various ingredients or elements.
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.