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. clarify
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
2. convey
► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
3. except
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
4. muster
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
5. scurry
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
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.