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. Repose
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► Being without or almost without hope
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
2. Vaccine
► The arrangement of events in time
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
3. Inference
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
4. Tranquility
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
5. Vertebrate
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
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.