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. attentive
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
2. clarify
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► Capable of doing many things competently
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
3. infer
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
4. except
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
5. analyze
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
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.