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. economy
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
2. compose
► To make something by merging parts.
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
3. sociable
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
4. meticulous
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
5. dismal
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
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.