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. analogy
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
2. ensure
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
3. classify
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► A mixture of various ingredients or elements.
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
4. detail
► A glowing piece of coal or wood.
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
5. effect
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► The result or outcome of a cause.
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
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.