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. topic
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
2. deft
► To make something by merging parts.
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
3. impact
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
4. exasperation
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
► The source or reason of an event or action
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
5. repugnant
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
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.