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. establish
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► To completely engage the attention of.
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
2. document
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
3. various
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
4. recluse
► More than half (50%) of some group
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
5. malleable
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
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.