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. egregious
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
2. establish
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
3. waver
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
4. muster
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
5. materialize
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
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.