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. similar
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
2. cause
► The source or reason of an event or action
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► The extent to which something matters; importance
3. oppose
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
4. grueling
► To clarify or make something understandable
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
5. emerge
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
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.