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. Hypocrisy
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
2. Yacht
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
3. Boisterous
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
4. Nebula
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► To condescend to give or grant
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
5. Suffrage
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A proportional part or share.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
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.