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. cause
► The source or reason of an event or action
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
2. convey
► What something does or is used for.
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
3. classify
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
4. banish
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
5. economy
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
► 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.