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. ominous
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
2. scarcity
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
3. materialize
► To completely engage the attention of.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
4. various
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
5. habitation
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
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.