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. source
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
► The source or reason of an event or action
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
2. eavesdrop
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
► A particular geographic region.
3. interdependence
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
4. significance
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
► The extent to which something matters; importance
5. circumference
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
► Brief, concise, to the point.
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.