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. replenish
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
2. analogy
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
3. recluse
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► A process of compensation for losses.
4. pristine
► Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
5. unsightly
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
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.