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. abolish
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
2. multitude
► A great amount or number, often of people.
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
3. unsightly
► A measurement one can compare to.
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
4. obstacles
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
5. compromise
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
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.