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. jabber
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
2. counter
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
3. acquire
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
4. majority
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
► More than half (50%) of some group
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
5. persistent
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
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.