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. waft
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
► A mixture of various ingredients or elements.
2. significance
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► The dividing line or location between two areas.
3. source
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
4. unsightly
► What something does or is used for.
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
5. relationship
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
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.