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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. knoll
► The source or reason of an event or action
2. vulnerable
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► A mixture of various ingredients or elements.
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
3. apprehensive
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
4. various
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
5. luminous
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.