Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

BLEACH

DEFINITION:
To become white or pale. Coral bleaching is the process when corals become white due to loss of symbiotic algae and photosynthetic pigments.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
If water temperatures remain above 84 degrees for a significant period, corals will begin to experience stress and start to bleach.
The Key West Citizen, 06/24/2024

Generate your own quiz
Select a grade level
 Elementary
 Middle School
 High School
Select a quiz type
 By words
 By Definitions
Select how many questions
5   10   15   20  

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. vulnerable

More or most likely to be exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.

Dark, faint or indistinct.

To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.

Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.


2. somber

Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.

Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements

To start (a fire) or light (a torch).

The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.


3. defiance

To start (a fire) or light (a torch).

The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.

The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.

Open resistance; bold disobedience.


4. apprehensive

A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.

Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.

Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.

Timid, fearful, overly cautious


5. stamina

An inadequate amount of something; a shortage

An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.

The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time ; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.

Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way


Get more Quizzes 

 Elementary School    Middle School   High School  

 By Word     By Definition    5  10  15  20 Questions

Common Core State Standard
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.