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. obstacles
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
2. significance
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► A measurement one can compare to.
3. restitution
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► A process of compensation for losses.
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
4. defiance
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
5. construct
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
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.