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. dismal
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
2. method
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
3. scurry
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
► What something does or is used for.
4. impact
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
5. replenish
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
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.