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. Renaissance
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
2. Silhouette
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► To condescend to give or grant
3. Random
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
4. Typhoon
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
5. Boycott
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► A proportional part or share.
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.