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. egregious
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
2. restitution
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► A process of compensation for losses.
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
3. potential
► Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
4. oppose
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
5. diminish
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► 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.