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. falter
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
2. element
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
3. banish
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
4. exhilarate
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
5. scarcity
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
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.