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. impact
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
2. attentive
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
► Capable of doing many things competently
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
3. source
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
4. persistent
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
5. jostle
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.