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. pertinent
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
2. knoll
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
3. dispel
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► The result or outcome of a cause.
4. restitution
► A process of compensation for losses.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
5. minority
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.