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. commotion
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
2. defiance
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
3. affect
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
4. conspicuous
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
5. habitation
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
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.