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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. precipice
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
2. recuperate
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
3. versatile
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► Capable of doing many things competently
4. observe
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
5. hasten
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► What something does or is used for.