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. materialize
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
2. frequency
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
► More than half (50%) of some group
3. ember
► A glowing piece of coal or wood.
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
4. cause
► The source or reason of an event or action
► A particular geographic region.
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
5. clarify
► A process of compensation for losses.
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.