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. meander
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
2. cunning
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
3. evidence
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
4. zeal
► The source or reason of an event or action
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
► More than half (50%) of some group
5. specimen
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.