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. analogy
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► The dividing line or location between two areas.
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
2. exhilarate
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
3. muster
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
4. compose
► To make something by merging parts.
► The result or outcome of a cause.
► Brief, concise, to the point.
5. replenish
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
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.