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. outlandish
► Brief, concise, to the point.
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
2. fragrance
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
3. economy
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
4. persistent
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
5. potential
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
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.