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. guarantee
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
2. jostle
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
3. pertinent
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
4. unsightly
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
5. vigilant
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
► Self-confidence; poise; composure.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.