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. attentive
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
2. versatile
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► Capable of doing many things competently
3. reduce
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
4. effect
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► The result or outcome of a cause.
5. conspicuous
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
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.