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. area
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► A particular geographic region.
2. egregious
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
3. jut
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
4. ensure
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
5. deft
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.