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. obstacles
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
2. precipice
► Of a central nature, first and foremost
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
3. uncanny
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► A glowing piece of coal or wood.
4. waft
► A glowing piece of coal or wood.
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
5. translucent
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
► A measurement one can compare to.
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it