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
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
2. barricade
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
3. acquire
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
4. obscure
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
5. infer
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
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.