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. scarcity
► A great amount or number, often of people.
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
2. headway
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► A particular geographic region.
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
3. meticulous
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► Of a central nature, first and foremost
4. method
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
5. guarantee
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
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.