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. versatile
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► Capable of doing many things competently
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
2. circumference
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
3. degree
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
4. commotion
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
5. habitation
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
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.