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. stamina
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
2. infer
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
3. analogy
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
4. headway
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
5. impending
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
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.