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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. persistent
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
2. jabber
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
3. brackish
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
4. swarm
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► A process of compensation for losses.
5. momentum
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts