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. Exult
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
2. Eclectic
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
3. Nocturnal
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
4. Random
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
5. Maneuver
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
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.