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
► Capable of doing many things competently
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
2. precipice
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
3. pristine
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
4. clarify
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
5. emerge
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
► What something does or is used for.
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.