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. narrate
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► A glowing piece of coal or wood.
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
2. influence
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► The source or reason of an event or action
3. detail
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
4. degree
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► To completely engage the attention of.
► Self-confidence; poise; composure.
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
5. obscure
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► A measurement one can compare to.
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.