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. quell
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
2. method
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
3. persistent
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► The extent to which something matters; importance
4. falter
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
5. multitude
► A great amount or number, often of people.
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► A process of compensation for losses.
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.