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. recuperate
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
2. jabber
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
3. minority
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
4. weather
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
5. interdependence
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
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.