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. knoll
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
2. meticulous
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► A great amount or number, often of people.
3. apprehensive
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
4. impact
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
5. majority
► More than half (50%) of some group
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
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.