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. sabotage
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
2. symbolism
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► A particular geographic region.
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
3. tactic
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
4. cause
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► The source or reason of an event or action
5. recluse
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
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.