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. Solstice
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► To condescend to give or grant
2. Marsupial
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
3. Wretched
► A proportional part or share.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
4. Symbiosis
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
5. Random
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
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.