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
► Being without or almost without hope
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
2. Inference
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
3. Jaunty
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
4. Yacht
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
5. Recede
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
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.