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. exhilarate
► The result or outcome of a cause.
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
2. repugnant
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
3. zeal
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► To clarify or make something understandable
4. scarcity
► A process of compensation for losses.
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► The source or reason of an event or action
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
5. potential
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
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.