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. replenish
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
2. reduce
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
3. primarily
► Of a central nature, first and foremost
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
4. tactic
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
5. observe
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
► A process of compensation for losses.
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.