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. sabotage
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
2. analogy
► A glowing piece of coal or wood.
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
3. obstacles
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
4. analyze
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
5. ensure
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
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.