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. jabber
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
2. waver
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
3. interdependence
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
4. frequency
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► A mixture of various ingredients or elements.
5. recuperate
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.