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. recuperate
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
2. outlandish
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
► A measurement one can compare to.
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
3. obstacles
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
4. jut
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
5. chronological
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► Of a central nature, first and foremost
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
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.