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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. recuperate
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
2. acquire
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
3. infer
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► To clarify or make something understandable
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
4. aptitude
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► Brief, concise, to the point.
5. jargon
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care