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. narrate
► The result or outcome of a cause.
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
2. affect
► A measurement one can compare to.
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
3. grueling
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
4. subside
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
5. serenity
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
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.