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. deft
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► Capable of doing many things competently
2. counter
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
3. primarily
► Of a central nature, first and foremost
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
4. frequency
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
5. furtive
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
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.