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. conclude
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
2. headway
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
3. value
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
4. construct
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
5. cause
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► The source or reason of an event or action
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
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.