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. relationship
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
2. headway
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
3. reduce
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
4. momentum
► A measurement one can compare to.
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
5. bluff
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
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.