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. reduce
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
2. materialize
► To clarify or make something understandable
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
3. pristine
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
4. majority
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► More than half (50%) of some group
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
5. waver
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
► A measurement one can compare to.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.