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. reference
► A process of compensation for losses.
► A measurement one can compare to.
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
2. emerge
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
3. minority
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
4. abolish
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
5. effect
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
► The result or outcome of a cause.
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.