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. vulnerable
2. malleable
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
3. circumference
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
4. banish
► More than half (50%) of some group
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
5. exasperation
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
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.