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. similar
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► To make something by merging parts.
2. reflection
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
3. destination
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
4. headway
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
5. scurry
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
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.