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. recluse
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
2. specimen
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► The source or reason of an event or action
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
3. egregious
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
4. circumference
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
5. falter
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
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.