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. current
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
2. conclude
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
3. contributions
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
4. clarify
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
5. oppose
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
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.