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. method
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
2. chronological
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
3. brackish
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► To make something by merging parts.
► A process of compensation for losses.
4. banish
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
5. commotion
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
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.