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. acquire
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
2. diminish
► What something does or is used for.
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
3. attentive
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
4. luminous
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
5. chronological
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
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.