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. majority
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► More than half (50%) of some group
2. source
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
3. banish
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
4. function
► What something does or is used for.
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
5. terse
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► Brief, concise, to the point.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
Additional resources
Colorado NIE Weekly lessons
Colorado NIE Youth Content
- Colorado Kids Wordbank
- Colorado Kids Assessment Test
- Colorado Kids Web Links
- Become a Youth Reporter
- Kid Scoop
- Mini Page
Lessons & Classroom Activities
- Cartoons for the Classroom
- Front Page Talking Points
- This Week in History
- News Video
- News Quiz
- Daily Science Webcasts
- Geography in the News quiz
- NASA Space Place
Resources by grade level