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. Aspire
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
2. Decorum
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
3. Salmonella
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► The arrangement of events in time
4. Divulge
► To condescend to give or grant
5. Inference
► To condescend to give or grant
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
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.