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. exhilarate
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
2. pristine
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
3. bluff
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
4. compose
► To make something by merging parts.
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
5. commotion
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
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.