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. falter
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
2. compromise
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
3. affect
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
4. restitution
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► A process of compensation for losses.
5. repugnant
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► What something does or is used for.
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.