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. Commemorate
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
2. Omnivore
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► The arrangement of events in time
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
3. Recede
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
4. Ozone
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
5. Maneuver
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► 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.