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. multitude
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► A great amount or number, often of people.
2. frequency
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
3. conclude
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
4. acquire
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
5. area
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► A particular geographic region.
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.