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. A bold, or arrogant strut.
2. An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
3. Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
4. The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.
5. To make stable or firm; to confirm.
Additional resources
Lessons & Classroom Activities
- Cartoons for the Classroom
- Front Page Talking Points
- This Week in History
- News Video
- Daily Science Webcasts
- Geography in the News quiz
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