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. unsightly
► The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► A measurement one can compare to.
2. dismal
► A great amount or number, often of people.
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
3. except
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
4. recluse
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► To make something by merging parts.
5. subside
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
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.