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. convey
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
2. barricade
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
3. fragrance
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► To completely engage the attention of.
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
4. ignite
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
5. source
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
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.