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
► The dividing line or location between two areas.
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
2. exhilarate
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
► What something does or is used for.
3. cause
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► The source or reason of an event or action
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
4. value
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
5. acquire
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
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.