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. establish
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► The source or reason of an event or action
2. area
► What something does or is used for.
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► A particular geographic region.
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
3. symbolism
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
4. conspicuous
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► A process of compensation for losses.
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
5. brandish
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
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.