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. banish
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► More than half (50%) of some group
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
2. specimen
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
3. muster
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
4. acquire
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
5. aplomb
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► Self-confidence; poise; composure.
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► A measurement one can compare to.
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.