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. abolish
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
2. compose
► To make something by merging parts.
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
3. persistent
► The result or outcome of a cause.
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► A particular geographic region.
4. cause
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► The source or reason of an event or action
5. bluff
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.