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. habitation
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
2. evidence
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
3. source
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
4. oppose
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
5. meander
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.