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. potential
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
2. attentive
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
3. habitation
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
4. brackish
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
5. dismal
► Capable of doing many things competently
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► The result or outcome of a cause.
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
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.