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. destination
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
► A great amount or number, often of people.
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
2. egregious
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► Capable of doing many things competently
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
3. knoll
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
4. clarify
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
5. quell
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► The source or reason of an event or action
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.