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 state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
2. Quota
► A proportional part or share.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
3. Light-Year
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
4. Bamboozle
► The arrangement of events in time
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
5. Plateau
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
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.