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. stamina
► To make something by merging parts.
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
2. scarcity
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
3. debris
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► A process of compensation for losses.
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
4. eavesdrop
► Of a central nature, first and foremost
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
5. materialize
► To completely engage the attention of.
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► The dividing line or location between two areas.