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. swagger
► More than half (50%) of some group
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
2. momentum
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► The result or outcome of a cause.
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
3. exasperation
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
4. recuperate
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► The dividing line or location between two areas.
5. bluff
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
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.