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. conclude
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
2. kindle
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
3. uncanny
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
4. ominous
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► More than half (50%) of some group
5. analogy
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► To completely engage the attention of.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,