Generate your own quiz 

Select a grade level

 Elementary
 Middle School
 High School

Select a quiz type

 By words    By Definitions

How many questions?

 5  10  15  20 Questions



 

Common Core State Standard
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.
This Week's Word In The News 

SEGREGATED

DEFINITION:
Kept separate or treated differently according to race, sex, religion, etc.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The other flag, dubbed “History,” is a nod to the Black experience in St. Petersburg, which was once heavily segregated.
The Key West Citizen, 10/13/2025

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle School 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. Suffrage

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.


2. Ellipse

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

Self-examination.

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.


3. Heritage

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal


4. Nuisance

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

To proclaim publicly


5. Polygon

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).


Get more Quizzes 

 Elementary School    Middle School   High School  

 By Word     By Definition    5  10  15  20 Questions