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. Outrageous
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
2. Suffrage
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
3. Exponent
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
4. Stereotype
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► The arrangement of events in time
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
5. Bandolier
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
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.