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. cunning
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
2. muster
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
3. vigilant
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
4. bluff
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
5. eavesdrop
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
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.