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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. uncanny
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
2. pertinent
► What something does or is used for.
► A great amount or number, often of people.
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► To clarify or make something understandable
3. meander
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
4. serenity
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
5. outlandish
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► More than half (50%) of some group