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. malleable
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
2. uncanny
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
3. muster
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
4. oppose
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► Capable of doing many things competently
5. recluse
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► Capable of doing many things competently
