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. oppose
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► A glowing piece of coal or wood.
2. effect
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► The result or outcome of a cause.
► The source or reason of an event or action
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
3. minority
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
4. misgivings
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
5. materialize
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
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.