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. effect
► The result or outcome of a cause.
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
2. emerge
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
► A mixture of various ingredients or elements.
3. impact
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
4. furtive
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► To clarify or make something understandable
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
5. minority
► To clarify or make something understandable
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
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.