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. frequency
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
2. influence
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
3. ignite
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
4. destination
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
5. circumference
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.