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. Participle
► To condescend to give or grant
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
2. Impertinent
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
3. Bizarre
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
4. Nocturnal
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
5. Chronology
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► The arrangement of events in time
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
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.