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. various
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
2. conspicuous
► A process of compensation for losses.
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
3. precipice
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
4. acquire
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
5. abolish
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance