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. destination
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
2. observe
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
3. ignite
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
4. swarm
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
5. infer
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
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.