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. obscure
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
2. scarcity
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
3. effect
► The result or outcome of a cause.
► A measurement one can compare to.
► A great amount or number, often of people.
4. construct
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
5. recuperate
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
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.