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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 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. momentum
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
2. various
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
3. luminous
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
4. subside
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
5. disdain
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.