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.
► 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.
► A measurement one can compare to.
2. malleable
► 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 bump into or brush against while in motion.
3. attentive
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► To completely engage the attention of.
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
4. barricade
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
5. majority
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► More than half (50%) of some group
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
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.