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. Voracious
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
2. Renegade
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
3. Accentuate
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
4. Pulverize
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
5. Jaunty
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
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.