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
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
2. replenish
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
3. counter
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► Of a central nature, first and foremost
4. furtive
► Self-confidence; poise; composure.
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
5. obscure
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
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.