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. compromise
► A great amount or number, often of people.
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
2. defiance
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
3. significance
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
4. diminish
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► The dividing line or location between two areas.
5. exhilarate
► The dividing line or location between two areas.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.