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. accomplish
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
2. influence
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
3. headway
► To clarify or make something understandable
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
4. majority
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► More than half (50%) of some group
5. serenity
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
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.