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. conspicuous
► A great amount or number, often of people.
2. grueling
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
3. jostle
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
4. various
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► To completely engage the attention of.
5. analyze
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.