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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. impact
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
2. grueling
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
3. restitution
► A process of compensation for losses.
► Brief, concise, to the point.
4. similar
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
5. knoll
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious