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. specimen
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
2. brackish
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
3. reference
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
► A measurement one can compare to.
4. area
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► A particular geographic region.
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
5. jargon
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
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.