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. Enthusiastic
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► The arrangement of events in time
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
2. Stereotype
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
3. Solstice
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
4. Repose
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
5. Wretched
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
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.