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. materialize
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
2. swarm
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
3. bluff
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
4. momentum
► A process of compensation for losses.
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
5. classify
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
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.